@carrots will be good to add also Meshroom engine ?

also if anyone wants the alpha, feel free, it is an edit I made to a picture from a Wikipedia article about Elephants.

So I just updated from 23.10 to 24.04. 3D Coat crashes whenever I browse for images - whether it be alphas, textures, smart materials, or any other texture. The file browser appears, and some folders cause 3DCoat to crash when I enter them, but not others. I can't find any pattern, either - not in the filename, nor the contents of the files within the folder, the filesystem the folder is mounted on, nothing. Important: I have not encountered any errors or bugs when browsing for mesh files, even in the affected folders. Also important: I am using the Ubuntu 20.04 build of 3D Coat because  This is fixed in the latest alpha build, but I can't use the alpha because of its own bugs. Right now I am bouncing my project back and forth between the versions and I know that is not a good idea! Anyways, putting this file in a folder seems to consistently cause the crash. It is an alpha that I made in Krita. It's a 16-bit image 256x256, grayscale, with linear profile. As far as I can tell, though, none of these properties are related to the crash, since this is exactly the same as other files which do not cause the crash except for two things: the file that breaks was saved out of a different program and it is a different size. Still, I don't know if those two differences are meaningful. This is a PNG, but I've had the bug occur with other file types such as .tif. Maybe the color profile that is saved in the image when I use Krita is the culprit? I will have to do some more checking later to see. Anyhow, I'd appreciate it if anyone who is using Ubuntu 24.04 has had similar problems, or if they can confirm the bug, or if a developer can reply with a solution. Probably I am just missing a package or something.  

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thinking now ... i may have rushed the video... give me more time ... let me test this more and ill get back to you

The imported obj has 8.8M triangles.

Items are listed in the Sculpt Tree, but they have 0 triangles.

Thanks carrots, RealityCapture is working with 3D Coat now, but after RealityCapture finishes the model does not appear in 3D Coat. Do I need to manually import the obj it creates?

If you select Automapping during import then there are no artifacts? Can you share .fbx to test?

As of today, 3DCoatTextura Applink for Blender is not available, unfortunately. We are looking into a possibility to implement it in future.

Try using this settings please, turn off Render Passes on Settings And select on Main panel Render Pass = Composite

Could you list the steps of what you do? If the surface of the object is uniform and does not have a clearly defined texture, the result may be poor.

@Carlosanok I'll give this a try, thanks.

This issue was solved here

I set up the Blender document folder, but when I select an object and try to send it, there’s no response in 3DCoat Textura. Is there any specific setting required in 3DCoat Textura? Is import/export via the Applink add-on disabled in the 30-day free trial version?   I don’t know what this shadow is from.  

Ok, I see, I will make it impossible to enter such parameters, since it makes no sense. You can choose 300 sharp frames from a 5-minute video, but there's no point in extracting every frame from a 30 second video.

open the Extensions window and make sure the Reality Capture module checkbox is checked, it will launch the module when 3dcoat starts. You can also launch it manually using the Start button.